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Hemp is legal in most of the world but you don't see much in the way of cultivation for purposes other than "medicinal"
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Hemp is legal in most of the world but you don't see much in the way of cultivation for purposes other than "medicinal"
Not disputing the many uses of Hemp and I think it was Dupont? influence pushing nylon rope that eventually demonized hemp/cannabis into illegality etc..
Saying that why do pot smokers push so hard for hemp legalization? Do they feel it will help legalize cannabis faster or is it more of a save the planet thing?
I know a little on the subject but like moncon, I wasn't aware of any large scale use and cultivation of hemp still. Isn't it just getting popular again recently?
JackThompson said:Washington State it gearing up for a lot of industries and income from it.
Not to mention a HUGE surge in selling "munchies" food.
It's harmless (unlike alcohol, but I stick with alcohol myself..I don't always follow my own advice), it has been proven to improve quality of life for people with all sorts of illnesses, provides so many useful products, and doesn't really have a downside except for the demonization of it.
No ill health effects, you can't poison yourself eating/smoking it, nobody has ever flown into a marijuana induced rage and attacked anyone (Due to the marijuana) and it would save billions of dollars in stopping law enforcement from having to fight a war on a harmless drug.
The upsides are all over. The downsides are only man made.
I don't know about Colorado, but Washington State it gearing up for a lot of industries and income from it.
"Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica." - Abraham Lincoln (from a letter written by Lincoln during his presidency to the head of the Hohner Harmonica Company in Germany)
It probably wasn't as potent then as it is now! LOL
Have to disagree with it being harmless to breathe unfiltered smoke into your lungs and it tended to destroy any ambition I had in High School, (parents should tell their kids to avoid it!). That being said, it should have been legalized long ago for adults. I don't think legalizing it now will increase usage either. Anyone who wants to smoke it now does and after the novelty of legal pot wears off you might even get a decrease. When I was a teen the fact that it was illegal was part of the fun.
Current pot smokers beware though, Uncle Sam is gonna tax the HECK out of it!!!
JackThompson, I guess we're gonna have to agree to disagree on the harmful effects to the young mind of smoking pot. I really feel it set me and my friends back. During Middle School and on in to High School smoking and to a lesser extent drinking was practically our #1 goal in life. Harder drugs began to creep into our routine until I eventually dropped out of school so I could get a full time job to get more drugs. During a lucid moment between minimum wage jobs I walked into a recruiters office and joined up on a lark one day, the recruiter had to come to our house so my Mom could sign my life away as I was 17! Through my Army years the news from my old friends was usually bad. Drop outs, DUIs, arrests for robberies as well as drugs even deaths. I can't blame all that on pot but it was a factor IMO. I re-visited pot in later years and for me it still drained my ambition and dulled my mental skills. Legal or not I've no desire to mess with it again but more power to any adult who does. I'm sure it effects everyone different.
Not disputing the many uses of Hemp and I think it was Dupont? influence pushing nylon rope that eventually demonized hemp/cannabis into illegality etc..
Saying that why do pot smokers push so hard for hemp legalization? Do they feel it will help legalize cannabis faster or is it more of a save the planet thing?
I know a little on the subject but like moncon, I wasn't aware of any large scale use and cultivation of hemp still. Isn't it just getting popular again recently?
. I was educated about it's negative effects in school and by my parents. .
Didn't think it was popular back then.